Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tolerant; enduring; patient.
- noun One who is patient and enduring.
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Examples
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Words taken in triumph, my sweet assistance, from the sufferant pen of our joco-sus inkerman militant of the reed behind the ear.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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'Bene valete, et vincite virtute vera, quod fecistis antidhac, ... ut vobis victi Poeni poenas sufferant.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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